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Microsoft's Cloud Evangelist Adds 'Clippy' To Their Business Card (msn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider's update on Microsoft Clippy, the animated cartoon paperclip that was Office's virtual assistant until the early 2000s, that "everyone loved to hate."
After 18 years, has it become retro chic? When Chloe Condon, a newly hired Microsoft cloud evangelist, ordered new business cards, she avoided the standard corporate look and instead went with Clippy-themed cards and tweeted them out... They've got a picture of Clippy on the front and on the back they say, "It looks like you are trying to get in touch with Chloe," with her contact info listed below...
Naturally, the Clippy The Paperclip Twitter account loved these cards. He tweeted, "@chloecondon It looks like you're using my likeness on your new business cards. Would you like help with WAIT I'M ON BUSINESS CARDS NOW?!" And then former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky, the man credited for developing Microsoft Office into a massive hit, noticed the cards and tweeted, "I suppose if you live long enough, others will wear your failures as a badge of honor...."
After four years of scorn, Clippy was officially retired in 2001. Sinofsky tells Business Insider that the company even issued a funny press release about it.... Microsoft even held an official retirement party for him in San Francisco, too. Sinfosky shared a photo from that party with us... If you look closely, you'll see unemployed Clippy is actually using the party thrown in his honor to collect charity for himself and beg for food.
After 18 years, has it become retro chic? When Chloe Condon, a newly hired Microsoft cloud evangelist, ordered new business cards, she avoided the standard corporate look and instead went with Clippy-themed cards and tweeted them out... They've got a picture of Clippy on the front and on the back they say, "It looks like you are trying to get in touch with Chloe," with her contact info listed below...
Naturally, the Clippy The Paperclip Twitter account loved these cards. He tweeted, "@chloecondon It looks like you're using my likeness on your new business cards. Would you like help with WAIT I'M ON BUSINESS CARDS NOW?!" And then former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky, the man credited for developing Microsoft Office into a massive hit, noticed the cards and tweeted, "I suppose if you live long enough, others will wear your failures as a badge of honor...."
After four years of scorn, Clippy was officially retired in 2001. Sinofsky tells Business Insider that the company even issued a funny press release about it.... Microsoft even held an official retirement party for him in San Francisco, too. Sinfosky shared a photo from that party with us... If you look closely, you'll see unemployed Clippy is actually using the party thrown in his honor to collect charity for himself and beg for food.
This is a new low.
"Oh, God. Not again."
Would you like some suggestions?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Please, go away.
You and your random, drive-by, low quality nonsense karma-whoring shitposts.
"I suppose if you live long enough, others will wear your failures as a badge of honor...."
Said every left winger and progtard ever in history. Despite failures of socialism at every attempt for the past century, leading to hundreds of millions of unnecessary deaths, it is being attempted again.
Major fail assholes. Glad you have Clippy to distract your stupid brains.
Microsoft doesn't pay her, apparently, so "ya girl" needs to get her some extra affiliate marketing dough.
I'm just wandering what a cloud camp revival looks like.
And lo', Google Drive sayeth to me....SINNERS shall not upload!!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Reads like Slashdot is selling astroturfed news articles now. Nobody cares if a devrel puts a tired meme on their business card.
We should all make Tux business cards and everyone send her one!
"Microsoft, stop trying to make Clippy happen. It's not going to happen"
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
And not paying for it with your billion+ dollars. Trump? Probably. But Kraft. I think he's a food-in-a-paper-box baron.
I'm just wandering what a cloud camp revival looks like.
Team-building exercises combining Agile and XP, and at break time Uncle Bob plays with a laser pointer on the big screen for Alms.
Then three hours of chanting in Smalltalk, followed by Aaron Patterson preaching about the intersection between programming exercises and spandex.
I think you've literally been a SlaveToTheGrind too long to be this pedantic. :)
Wow. Amazing. Some trans dude/girl's business cards. Why is this on slashdot?
Clippy says it looks like you have Comcast do you want to pay the $50 unlimited add on (and save your self from big overage fees) before starting X-box online steaming?
"Clippy's" name was never Clippy, it was always Clippit.
Since it's only one person, wouldn't it be "Adds 'Clippy' To Her Business Card" ?
Just a thought.
Oh, and thank you for capitalizing the first character of every word. It really makes the topic more exciting.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Nope, people print business cards by the hundreds. It would be "Adds 'Clippy' to Her Business Cards"
Your ad here. Ask me how!
It must be horrible to have such an embittered life.
After 18 years, has it become retro chic?
No. No, it has not.
Clippy went way beyond being irritating, it was the perfect symbol of Microsoft's condescension to its customers and its prioritizing showing off fancy UI features over user productivity. (Why does Microsoft's software call my documents "My Documents"? That's the way adults talk to two-year-olds.)
The hate was and still is well-deserved. A business card with Clippy will tell me everything I need to know about a person's judgment and attitude.
The world was happy to be finally rid of Clippy/Clipit in 2001. He sure doesn't a 2nd life.
CDAs use Clippy and Macs because they hate Microsoft and just want to make fun of them while taking six figure salaries and flying all over the world shitting on everything Microsoft does.
A person to avoid I think.
Clippy is just not cool. It never has been and never will be.
Please let is die a horrible death eh?
How is this "News"?? This has to be one of the of dumbest things I have seen posted on Slashdot!!! Slashdot's standards have dropped significantly if this is considered "News." At one time, Slashdot would have rejected an idiotic story like this. I guess there are no minimum standards to get an article posted on Slashdot.
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Did she even ever use Word when Clippy was there? She is very young.